Exhortation, Confession, Absolution, the Comfortable Words, the Prayer of Humble Access, and the Thanks giving, which still remain, with slight alterations, in the English Communion Service. It was to be interpolated in the Latin Mass immediately before the communion of the people. Nothing is really known about the author shi of this, though it has been assumed by later historians to ave been the work of a committee of bisho and divines which is supposed to have drawn u the rayer Book of 1549. The existence of some suc committee seems to be proved by a passage in the king's diary, and by a letter written by Cranmer to Mary in 1555, in which he says that a good number of learned men of both parties assembled at Windsor, and agreed that the service should be in English. The list of six bishops and six divines which is given in modern histories first appears a hundred years later in Fuller's Church History, and the source of his information cannot be certainly ascertained. At all events, it seems clear that there was a meeting at Windsor towards the end of September 1548, but how much was then done towards drawing 11 the Prayer Book is quite uncertain. Probably the wor of translation and ada tation had already been sub stantially completed. Arious incidental notices show that English services had already been used. As early as April 1547 Compline was sung in English in the king's chapel. In September the Council ordered the Epistle and Gospel to be read in English. When Parliament met on November 4, the Gloria, Creed, and Agnus were sung in English at Westminster. In May 1548 a com temporary letter states that Matins and Evensong were sung in English at S. Paul's, and Mass before the king at Westminster in English. On September 4, 1548, Somerset wrote to the vice-chancellor at Cambridge, to order him to use the Mass, Matins, and Evensong sung in the king's chapel.

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